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Agent Modeling Platform

The AMP project provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for representing, editing, generating,
executing and visualizing agent-based models (ABMs) and any other domain requiring spatial, behavioral and functional
features. AMP has two main themes that complement but don't depend on one another:

Modeling

Agent Modeling Framework (AMF)

AMF provides an ABM meta-model representation, editor, generator and development environment. The
AMF Acore meta-model is similar to EMF Ecore and defined in Ecore, but provides high-level support for complex agents.

AMF generates complete executable models for Escape, Ascape and Repast Simphony, as well as Java
Skeletons and Interfaces, JUnit test cases and documentation and is easily extensible to support additional targets.

Platform

Agent Execution Framework (AXF)

The execution framework provides services and UI for model management, execution, and views.
Arbitrary toolkits can easily integrate with Eclipse and AXF by implementing pluggable providers like engines, agents
and view parts. AXF is not just for ABM -- anyone who needs support for executing, managing and visualizing collections
of objects may find it useful.

Agent Graphics Framework (AGF)

The graphics framework extends GEF, GEF3D, Zest, and the BIRT charting engine to support real-time
visualization of and interaction with agent models. AGF currently provides support for 2D, 2 1/2 D. and graph
structures, and will be extended to 3-D, GIS and others. As with other AMP components, the AGF design focus is to
provide an extensible infrastructure so that platform adopters can easily create their own view and editor parts.

Escape

Escape is an exemplar ABM toolset. It's based on Ascape, which has been in use for more than 10 years. The core
API is very stable, and that should give users a way to explore the features of AMP without concerns about keeping in
synch with the rapidly evolving AXF /AGF API. It allows modelers to code in Java and/or generate models with AMF and
then execute those models within the same development environment.

Current Status

We've had our first official Release! Check out all of the improvements and new features in 0.8.0. The new Modeling
Discovery site makes installation a breeze. And we have new committers joining the
project soon. Please see our updated Project
Plan for more details.

Screencasts

Find out more about ABM and AMP in these presentations.. (Externally hosted.)

"What's an Agent-Based Model?"

The primary focus of AMP is "Agent-Based Modeling". ABMs share characteristics with object models, but are:

Spatial: Models have explicit environment(s) in which agents interact. (An environment need not be
a physical landscape; other examples of spatial relationships include social networks or positions within a
logic system.)

Temporal: Models change over discrete units of time.

Autonomous: Agent behaviors are activated independently from other object requests.

Heterogenous: Agents may share behavior definitions but have apparent and distinct states and
behaviors.

Collective: Models contain large communities of agents which exhibit collaborative and competitive
behaviors.

Emergent: Agents have collective macro-behaviors that are non-obvious from agent
micro-specifications.

Other Resources

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